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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1054)	12/16/2003 1:15:46 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

Lizzie, In addition to what I presume you mean to be an Internet based voting system and which isn't at all related to the current e-voting machines, there are two much better solutions. 1) Permanent absentee balloting -- This is the system that we use here in Deschutes County, Oregon. It is wonderful. The ballot arrives a couple of weeks before the election date and we can fill it out at our leisure and either mail it in, or deliver it to the County Clerk's Office. Brilliant. 2) Every other OECD democracy has created a holiday for elections, or has the election on a Sunday. Thus, there is no conflict between work and voting. Our Congress, in all its wisdom, decided that too many voters would be bad for the elites, who could afford to saunter to the polls on Tuesdays when all their little worker bees were too busy to get to the polls. It was all done very deliberately to give the electoral advantage to the fat cats. 3) Your idea of using the Internet for voting at disparate locations is fraught with dangers of fraud and no one has seriously considered this method since 1992 when Ross Perot championed this idea. It's a non-starter. Sorry.